Social Innovation: The Social Ideas Podcast
The Social Ideas podcast shares the impact of social innovation, its necessity and its capacity to challenge the status quo. Throughout this series, highly committed change makers in business, civil society, policy and academia will talk about their work, their ideas and their motivation to strive towards to a more equitable and sustainable world.The Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, acts as a platform for research and engagement with social innovators, academia and policy in UK and across the world.
Episodes
116 episodes
The Social Ideas Podcast: Foundervine - removing social and economic barriers to entrepreneurship
In this episode we hear from Izzy Obeng, co-founder of Foundervine. Foundervine’s mission is to remove social and economic barriers to entrepreneurship for women and are racially-minoritised individuals. Collaborating with global partners, they...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: InPower Academy – transforming lives through martial arts
In this episode, we hear from Daryl Chambers, founder of InPower Academy CIC. InPower Academy work in in crime impacted areas to transform young people’s lives through martial arts training. InPower ...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: Sirlute – crafting the creative future of London
In this episode, we talk to JR Josephs, founder of Sirlute. As a charitable organisation, Sirlute provide creative learning and mentoring for children and young people in London. Sirlute
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The Social Ideas Podcast: Women’s Work Lab – helping single mothers regain independence through a career support community
In this episode, we talk to Rachel Mostyn and Camilla Rigby. Rachel and Camilla are co-founders of Women’s Work Lab, a Community Interest Company which supports the careers of women and single parents in the South West of England.
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The Social Ideas Podcast: winning the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize
In this episode of The Social Innovation Podcast, Lisa Stepanovic shares the benefits and power of winning the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize.Lisa is the Founder and CEO of the multi award winning, Social Ark, which enables 16–30-yea...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the power of AutonoMe
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, social entrepreneur Will Britton shares why he created the AutonoMe app and how winning The Cambridge Social Innovation Prize helped develop his social enterprise further.The AutonoMe app hel...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: changing the system
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, graduate of the Masters in Social Innovation Programme and social innovator, Nora Wilhelm shares her journey to becoming an activist.She discusses her work within the world of systems design ...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: educating with insight
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast we hear from Christine Kinnear, Founder and CEO of With Insight Education.With Insight Education is a charity that mentors Black-heritage pupils to help them successfully apply to top universi...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: Noise Solution
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we hear from CEO and Founder of Noise solution, Simon Glenister.Simon shares how the social enterprise uses music mentoring to work with young people who’re dealing with challenging....
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the social impact of procurement
In this episode, we hear from Aoise Keogan-Nooshabadi, Co-founder and the COO of Supply Change. Supply Change is a social enterprise platform, which allows buyers to find social environmental suppliers based on location, trade, and ...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: dementia and the community
In this episode, we hear from Dr Liz Dennis, the co-Founder of The Filo Project, which offers high quality day care for small groups of older people, supporting individuals who are socially isolated, many of whom are experiencing symptoms assoc...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the social impact of online news
In this episode, we hear from Tim West, the Founder Editor and CEO of the social enterprise magazine, Pioneers Post. Tim is also involved in a number of different organisations, working to promote social entrepreneurship, and connecting...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: Babbasa - inspiring our youth
In this episode, we hear from Poku Osei, the founder and CEO of Babbasa. The social enterprise was created to tackle the challenges of youth unemployment and educational underachievement in Bristol’s ethnically diverse inner city communities.&n...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: Generation Medics
On 5 July 2023, the National Health Service - one of the UK's greatest social innovations - turned 75.In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Hinnah Rafique shares why she founded Generation Medics.The social enterprise ...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: no longer invisible
Congratulations to Zakia Moulaoui, who is one of five winners of this year’s Cambridge Social Innovation Prize.Listen to The Social Ideas Podcast: no longer invisible to learn more about Zakia’s social enterprise, Invisible Cities.
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The Social Ideas Podcast: winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2023
In this short episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we introduce you to this year's winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize winners.Throughout the coming days, we'll be sharing longer interviews with the winners.
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The Social Ideas Podcast: incubating a social enterprise
In The Social Ideas Podcast: incubating a social enterprise, Ellie Finch shares how the computer game Minecraft inspired how she delivers counselling for young people, parents, and parent carers.Ellie is the founder of Ellie Finch Counse...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: social venturing on the weekend
In this episode The Social Ideas Podcast, Ellie Finch shares how the computer game, Minecraft, has inspired how she delivers counselling for young people, parents, and parent carers.Ellie is the founder of Ellie Finch Counselling and Co...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the social innovation of mental wellbeing
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast we hear from Ariana Alexander-Sefre, the Founder and Co-CEO of wellbeing music app, SPOKE; and Chris Hope, Founder of the 100 Coffee Movement.Ariana is a recent graduate of the Masters in Soci...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: creating the future of social innovation
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, four graduates of the Masters in Social Innovation talk about why they chose the programme, what they got out of it, and how what they've learnt has impacted their socially innovative work.Fi...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: how digital capitalism harms women
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Lilia Giugni discusses her book, The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist.She explains what digital capitalism is and the damage it is causing women around the glob...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: education and relationships in the social innovation space
The Social Ideas Podcast: education and relationships in the social innovation spaceJerry Ong, Va Yang, and Chris Hope join us for another episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, in which they talk about the possible tensions between Wester...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the relationships of social innovation
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we hear from three people who have been involved with our Masters in Social Innovation.Jerry Ong and Va Yang are graduates of our programme, whilst Chris Hope will soon submit his research di...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2023
The £10,000 awards are made annually to extraordinary founder-CEOs of scale-up social enterprises to support their growth as leaders. Mentoring from experts at Cambridge Judge Business School and support from an expanding community of social in...
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The Social Ideas Podcast: the flight path of social innovation
Professor Bill DeMarco, Colonel, USAF (ret), serves as the Chief of Innovation Development for Air University in, Alabama. With around 500 students on site and thousands more who complete AUiX’s online programmes, the university wor...
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